It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most
anxious for its welfare.Edmund Burke

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not
remove the necessity of subduing again: And a nation is not governed, which is perpetually
to be conquered.Edmund Burke

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with
an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to
the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.Edmund Burke

It cannot at this time be too often repeated; line upon line; precept upon precept; until it
comes into the currency of a proverb - to innovate is not to reform.Edmund Burke

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to
allow such a principle in its policy.Edmund Burke

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times,
and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer,
opium, brandy, or tobacco.Edmund Burke

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.Edmund Burke

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude
that to be good from whence good is derived.Edmund Burke

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.Edmund Burke

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I
ought to do.Edmund Burke